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    The iterative failure of successive counterfactual refine... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Counterfactuals cannot adequately capture the concept of circumstantial luck

    The iterative failure of successive counterfactual refinements suggests a systematic inadequacy rather than a fixable defect

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    As Hanna recognizes, the defender of circumstantial luck can improve the counterfactual schema in various ways so as to try to avoid such counterexamples. But each improvement seems to simply bring a clever new apparent counterexample. Perhaps counterfactuals simply cannot do the job being asked of them.

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